Our Chair

The Rt Hon the Baroness
Blackstone

Baroness Blackstone has enjoyed a distinguished career in
education, politics and public life having been a lecturer at the
London School of Economics, a member of the Central Policy Review
Staff at the Cabinet Office, a Professor at the Institute of
Education, Deputy Education Officer of the Inner London Education
Authority, Master of Birkbeck College, University of London and
Vice Chancellor of the University of Greenwich. She was
Minister of State for Education and Employment from 1997 until 2001
and Minister for the Arts from 2001 until 2003. She has
been the Chair of the General Advisory Council of the BBC, the
Institute for Public Policy Research, the Royal Institute of
British Architects Trust, and of the Board of Great Ormond Street
Hospital and is currently Chair of the British Library Board, the
Franco-British Council, the Orbit Group of housing associations and
the Trustees of the British Lung Foundation.